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Friday is Shore Leave!
Just a quick reminder to any of you who happen to be planning to be in the greater Baltimore area:
Shore Leave is this weekend, and while I am listed among the many “author guests” I’m only going to be there tomorrow (Friday), and only from the afternoon on.
My plan is to drive down after I get off work from the DayJob, which even with some traffic ought to have me on site by about 5pm. I’ll get my badge, wander the perimeter, and eventually land in the bar until a bit before 7pm.
At 7pm you can find me in the audience of the Bob Greenberger roast (it should be much fun!).
Then from 9pm until 11pm, I’ll be signing and selling books at one of the table on the Grand Concourse as part of the conventions annual “Meet the Pros” sessions. Come on down and get a copy of Buffalito Contingency (and I’ll sign it!) or maybe a copy of the Tao Te Ching lovingly translated into Klingon.
Ater the signing (and after I’ve dropped all the gear back in my car) I plan to hang in the bar with the other authors, lying and making rude gestures, until such time as we close the place down (likely about 2am). Then I will splash some water on my face, hop into my car, and drive home. With luck, I’ll be in bed around 4am.
Morning Dose of OOOPS!
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Written on July 5th, 2011 by Lawrence Schoen
Categories: News
Tags: Publishing, Writing
Categories: News
Tags: Publishing, Writing
I’m finalizing the contracts for an anthology that I’m editing/publishing, and I got to thinking that I hadn’t heard back from another publisher regarding the contracts that I’d had some questions about.
So I go looking at the correspondence thread in my email account and discover that instead of “sending” my reply to them a month ago, I’d only “saved” it, and the damn thing has been sitting in “draft” mode in my account.
Which goes a long way to explaining why I hadn’t heard back from them in the intervening weeks, as they’d still been waiting to hear back from me.
Nothing like a big face full of egg to start the day.
On the other hand, this is why Klingon has Replacement Proverbs. HIvqa’ veqlargh. Okay, now I feel much better.
No Con This Weekend
As we were unable to fly out for Westercon, we’d been toying with driving out to Lancaster for the day and partaking of Grangecon, an extremely small relax-a-con.
Tempting as that sounds, given the weather & the 90 minute drive each way, I think I’ll pass. I have plenty of things to work on here at home. And plenty of things to read. And within a ten minute drive, plenty of things to eat. 🙂
Putting the “Don’t Be Evil” PLUS in Social Media
Over the last couple of days, several people have sent me invitations to join up with Google+.
Naturally enough, the first few times I tried to do this, Google+ informed me that they’d “temporarily exceeded” their capacity. But I persevered, and now I have been anointed, or accepted, or whatever the buzz word it.
All of this comes on the heels of an insightful post by John Scalzi about having one’s own domain-based presence rather than simply relying upon the latest, and all too fleeting, flavor of social media.
I’ve been through most of them. In the bad old days of 300 baud modems, I was on PLINK and then PORTAL and then, gasp, the shiny new kid on the block AOL (even with a free account as an assistant to the Typography form, oh those halcyon days of yore). I briefly did the MySpace thing, never got into Friendster. I never heard about the Dueling Modems home until it had faded and been more or less replaced by SFF.net, and I was lured away from there by LiveJournal. My wife suckered me into setting up a Facebook account, and perhaps most recently I’ve learned to use Twitter (poorly).
I rarely cruise Facebook; it’s just not an effective use of my time given the several thousand people I’m connected to there — and has Howard Tayler has pointed out, this may be the saving grace that makes Google+ workable, allowing users to define “circles” of people, and browse their posts accordingly. Livejournal supports something like that too, but the set up for it was always more of a pain, and the usage not much better.
And speaking of Livejournal, I’m not there much any more either. Which is a shame, because I’m missing out on events in the lives of people I really care about, but it’s all about ease of use and time suck and balancing the two.
Most of my posts are to my own blog (which get mirrored to my Livejournal account, and linked to at Twitter, and when I remember to, manually linked to my Facebook). I’ll probably go looking for a WordPress plugin that lets me do something similar with Google+ (assuming I can find someone to walk me through the install).
So, for now, I’ll be exploring what Google+ has to offer. But I think John had it right, in the end, I’ll be focusing more and more on what I can do at my own domain: http://www.lawrencemschoen.com
My Big Idea Day
Today, over on John Scalzi’s blog, I have the pleasure of being featured in the Big Idea slot for my new novel, Buffalito Contingency.
Go have a read, it’s good stuff!
Author Magazine reviews BUFFALITO CONTINGENCY
Over at authormagazine.org, Kevin Lauderdale has posted his review of my second novel, Buffalito Contingency
Most of the review is a selective summary highlighting various hijinx that appear to have really caught his eye. He’s not gushingly blown away, but he’s happy enough I think. Here’s the big quotable bit:
Schoen mixes inspired and occasionally anachronistic silliness
with well-designed aliens and hard science fiction tropes admirably.
Yeah. I’m good with that.
Buffalito Contingency “officially” goes on sale on June 27th.
